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Bad Answer
Jul. 20th, 2006 06:23 pmQuestion: How should I do this?
Answer: It's just a rough draft.
Why that's a bad answer:
a) It's not an answer to the question I asked. Plus it's a lot easier to turn a rough draft into a final draft if I know from the beginning what is expected.
b) If you don't care how we're doing it, why even bother with a rough draft? I have other job duties I can work on that won't lead to a steaming pile of crap.
c) The fact that you're willing to make me do something once while refusing to answer my question (oh, especially the one who called it a good question), and then make me completely re-do it later after you get your head out of your butt has a negative effect on my motivation.
And yet, I have gotten this same answer twice recently, from different people.
And things have worked the other way around twice too (from two additional different people)--I described how something should be changed, and then I got told that it's not going to be changed (yet) because it's just the rough draft. If people make you quit using the old system and start using the new system, are they also allowed to call it a rough draft?
Answer: It's just a rough draft.
Why that's a bad answer:
a) It's not an answer to the question I asked. Plus it's a lot easier to turn a rough draft into a final draft if I know from the beginning what is expected.
b) If you don't care how we're doing it, why even bother with a rough draft? I have other job duties I can work on that won't lead to a steaming pile of crap.
c) The fact that you're willing to make me do something once while refusing to answer my question (oh, especially the one who called it a good question), and then make me completely re-do it later after you get your head out of your butt has a negative effect on my motivation.
And yet, I have gotten this same answer twice recently, from different people.
And things have worked the other way around twice too (from two additional different people)--I described how something should be changed, and then I got told that it's not going to be changed (yet) because it's just the rough draft. If people make you quit using the old system and start using the new system, are they also allowed to call it a rough draft?